thank you let's now talk to dr frank leon roberts he is in new york city and he is the nation's 1st professor to teach a black labs mattia seminar new york university is also the founder of black lives mattia syllabus dot com dr roberts last hour we spoke about how this time around it feels different right and george floyd spent the last few weeks of his life recovering from coronavirus we've been talking about this pandemic and it really has absolutely laid bare the inequalities in the u.s. and i want to go back to some c.d.c. figures african-americans make up 13 percent of the population but 30 percent of cases what impact has this pandemic had in spurring this movement that we're seeing now or i think as i said in the 1st hour i think you need. help to ignite the flame exacerbate these feelings of social unrest so when you have a group of people meeting particularly the u.s. black community that is all really used to this epidemic of police violence and then on top of that you put it would you make up with kill the growth of virus and then on top of that you put a new one employment number